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GOOD Business: Comet Skateboards
Moving to a new town can be pretty hard. But if, like Comet Skateboards, one of the founding principles of your company is community...
Read & DiscussGOOD Business: IceStone
If you're looking to trick out your home with the greenest products on the market, you could do a lot worse than IceStone. Their countertops...
Read & DiscussGOOD Business: Greyston Bakery
How good can one brownie be? Greyston Bakery's brownies are delicious, sure, but they also help to alleviate poverty within the community of...
Read & DiscussOn Skid Row: Afterword
For over 20 years the official policy for Skid Row has been one of containment. Los Angeles needs a catalytic action from its political...
Read & DiscussOn Skid Row: God
People living on Skid Row have often severed their earthly relationships. Union Rescue Mission's Orlando Ward and Skid Row preacher Pastor...
Read & DiscussOn Skid Row: Drugs
In the shadow of Los Angeles's glimmering financial district skyscrapers, Skid Row is "like Vegas for junkies." Choc Nitty started selling...
Read & DiscussOn Skid Row: Kids
Franklin Arburtha carries the mantle of disenfranchised youth on Skid Row. But the deck is stacked against anyone who's lived here-especially...
Read & DiscussOn Skid Row: Introduction
Los Angeles's police chief called Skid Row "the worst social disaster in America." It's a frightening sight from a moving car. Sam Slovick...
Read & DiscussBikes to Rwanda
Lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda to a processing plant was back-breaking work for the Karaba coffee co-op. In...
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